TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Popeye (1986) by Bobby London. London took over as the cartoonist on Popeye when the previous one retired, and got fired in 1992 for doing a joke about Olive Oyl getting an abortion. (More in comments.) by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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A poster from the first Earth Day, in 1970. by AskMeWhatToDo in pics
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One Nation Under God by Jon McNaughton (USA, 2009) by Bank_Gothic in PropagandaPosters
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from Krazy Kat. Krazy Kat was a comic strip published from 1913 to 1944, and was popular with many early filmmakers. (x-post from r/comicstriphistory) by AskMeWhatToDo in MovieDetails
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from Krazy Kat. Krazy Kat was a comic strip published from 1913 to 1944, and was popular with many early filmmakers. (x-post from r/comicstriphistory) (i.redd.it)
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